Tulsidas Borkar playing the harmonium. Photo by Rajar Parrikar. Used by permission.
One goal of the Journal of Asian Studies has always been to showcase diverse approaches to varied parts of Asia, so it is natural for a volume to include essays by scholars who work in a range of disciplines and focus on a host of specific settings. Due to many factors, the same cannot always be said of individual issues—but it certainly can of this one. Readers will find included here essays by, in turn, a political scientist who specializes in the study of Myanmar, an ethnomusicologist working on India, a pair of Japan specialists (one trained in history, the other in political science), a cultural historian interested in Korea when it was part of the Japanese Empire, a geographer whose focus is Sri Lanka, and a scholar of Japanese literature. No issue can bring in every discipline...
